Los Angeles daily herald., 1887-09-30
SANTA ANA VALLEY.
Beautiful Homes EmbOw-
cred in Roses.
A PROSPEROUS DISTRICT.
Farmers Who Live at Ease, and
Merchants Who Grow Rich
without Effort.

When the first enterprising settlers
came into the Santa Ana Valley they
knew before they tried that vegetation
would astonish all beholders on the
rich chocolate loans mingled with
sand, changing in places into coarseI
gravel. The climate was in all re-
spects perfect. On the north stood
ranges of mountains as a barrier inn
passable against the cold winds
from that quarter. Southwark
lay the sea from which
blew refreshing breezes to cool
the temperature when summer suns
might otherwise prove too ardent.
Then the largest river in Southern
California furnished the third element
necessary to success in plentiful
supply of clear water. To get the
water to the land nearly 100 miles of
bitches have been constructed, and no
part of the country has better sup
ply of water than the Santa Ana val
ley. All the valley does not require
irrigation. From Burruell Point, or
Olive Heights, as it is now called,
along by St. James and Orange, to
Santa Ana and Tustin City, the mesa
must be irrigated. The same is true
of Earlham, and the country
around the great raisin vine
yards Fof the Mcpherson Bros.
The area under irrigation is about
10000 acres, and that is all fine
land. Below Santa Ana, along the
Westminster, Garden Grove, and on
in the other direction by Gospel
Swamp and Newport artesian wells
are obtained near the surface, and
these are relied upon for irrigation.
This district, between the town of
Santa Ana and the sea, is devoted
mostly to alfalfa, stock raising, corn
and grain production. 1t is hog and
hominy land of the best sort. But
it will produce as fine, deciduous fruits
as any part of the country,
Bartlett pears, peaches, apricots
and apples grow here to a
perfection nowhere excelled. While
these lands yield 100 bushels Of corn
and apwards,f and while pumpkins
grow, here which weigh $50 to 175
pounds each, peaches will grow here
that measure a foot in circumference,
and apples that weigh pound each.
On the mesa raisin vineyards and or
ange groves pay a profit OF $3.50 to
$500 per acre per annum. The corn
lands are cheaper, and in alfalfa or
corn the net profits will astonish farm
ers from other parts of the Union.
Peaches and apricots pay nearly as
well as oranges and grapes.
SANTA ANA's HOMES.
A glance at Santa Ana and her sur
roundings will prove to the most skep-
tical that there is no exaggeration in
these statements. Unless these pur-
suits paid we'll the settlers could not
show the tokens of prosperity and
comfort seen on every side. This Sec
ton does not appear like one of mere
bucolic pursuits. There are exhibited
everywhere signs of taste, refinement
and ease befitting the suburbs of
large and prosperous city. The side
walks and the shade trees along the
roads, the hedgerows, the flower
beds and rare shrubs in front
of every house, the trim style in which
all is kept, the well appointed out
buildings, and above all the dwellings
ranging from the cosy cottage ornate
in style, and half concealed in flowers,
up to country mansions of really pre-
tentious proportions-al these things
prove that farming pays on these fine
soils and beneath these sunny skies.
Churches of various denominations,
and elegant school buildings combine
with the private residences to testify
to the prosperity of people who find
cultivation and means to lavish in
these enterprises.
THE TOWNS.
Santa Ana is of course the most
important town in that part of Los
Angeles county-and it is an import
ant town. 1t has just built hotel,
the Brunswick, at a cost of 800, 900.
1t cost $40. 1000 to furnish this. The
building is the center OF long rows of
fine streets, with well-built business
blocks in solid brick as far as one can
see. Were the reader to enter any of
these stores he would find u stock OF
goods of metropolitan character both
in size and variety of selection and in
excellence OF quality. Every branch
OF business is we'll represented, and
all the establishments are doing
we'll. Of course, Santa Ana is more or
less the entrepot to all the surround
ing country. Rural districts in such a
valley as that are thickly peopled. 1t
does not require square mile OF
orchard or vineyard to support a fam
lily. Five to ten acres of land near
Santa Ana will maintain family
better than a big wheat farm
in the West. As a matter OF
fact, the region around Santa
Ana is SO subdivided and
that well-peopled district is all tribu-
tary to the town.
Next in size is Orange. about six
miles distant. Here is the same air
of refinement, ease and prosperity,
only on a little smaller scale.
Tustin follows, the loveliest little
earthly paradise in Southern Califor-
mia. st. James and Olive Heights are
new towns just founded, while Earl
ham has already made some progress
in the way Of development.
Serious Accident.
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